Eye-treating apparatus



Sept. 18, 1928. 1,684,860

DE FOREST B. CATLlN EYE TREATING APPARATUS Original Filed March 12, 1927 Topermit accurate adjustment of the electrode members to the eyes, I. providea pair of conducting holders, adjustably mounted on theconductor 12, andvprovide 'with clamping means engaging the conductor to maintain the holders and electrode members variably spaced apart, the construction ofeach holder being preferably as next described.

23 designates a metal sleeve having threaded bore, with which is engaged a clamping screw 24. The sleeve is provided at one end with an internal socket 25, and with a transverse orifice 26, intersecting the threaded bore and of larger diameter than the conductor 12, said orifice 'loosely'receiving a portion of the conductor.

27 designates a screw-threaded shank projecting from the sleeveand having a ballshaped head 28, adapted to turn in the socket 25, and thus vary the angularity of V the projecting shank. The electrode memmay be confined.

ber 21 is provided with a cross-bar 29, having an orifice 30, receiving the shank 27. Nuts 31 and 32 engaged with the shank, are get up against opposite sides of'the cross- The socket 25 and head 28 constitute a ball-and-socket joint, permitting the angu lar position of the shank 27 to be varied.

When the clamping screw 24: is tightened on the conductor 12, the sleeve 23 is rigidly secured to the conductor, andthe ball-shaped head 28 is rigidlyclamped between the socket 225 and the conductor, in any angu lar position to which it may have been moved. The described construction, therefore, permits the clamping screws 24 to confine the holders and the electrode members variably spaced apart, and to confine the shanks 27 and the electrode members in different angular positions relative to the sleeves .23, so that provision is made for effecting adjustments of the electrode members,

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The wallsof the openings surrounded by the contact faces 22 of the electrode members, and the cross-bars 29 which are offset from said faces, form recesses in which the absorbent cotton used in galvanic treatment,

1. Eye-treating apparatus comprising an electrode-supporting conductor having electrodesupporting clamping means for connection with a source of reme- (lillCflIIGIlt, and a double electrode whose members are spacedapart on the conductor,

each member having an annular contact face formed to bear on an'annular area of closed eyelids, and surrounding an opening formed an t to coincide with eyeball portions containing the crystalline lenses of the eyes, the area and arrangement of the openings being such that the remedial current passes around, and not through, the crystalline lenses when the apparatus ism use.

2. Eye-treat ng apparatus comprising an inflexible conductor, an elongated flexible 1.

conductor connected at one end with the infiexiblegfonductor, and 'providedat its opposite end with means for connection with a sourceotremedial current, a rigid tubular insulatingsheath enclosing a portion of the flexible conductor and constituting an element of means for supporting the apparatus in an operative position, and a double electrodeywhose members are spaced apart on the inflexible conductor, each member having a Contact face formed to bear on external surfaces of closed eyelids.

3; Eye-treating apparatus comprising an conductorhaving means for connection with a source of reme dial current, a pair of conducting holders adjustably mounted on the conductor and provided with. clamping means engaging the conductor, to maintain the holders variably spaced apart, and'a double electrode whose members are engaged with said holders and variably spaced apart thereby, each member having a Contact face formed to bear onexternal surfaces of closed eyelids.

4. Eyetreating apparatus comprising an electrode-supporting conductor having meansfor connection witha source of re1ne-' dial current, a pair of holders, each includ ing a sleeve having a threaded bore, a screw engaged therewith, an 1in-. ternal socket atone end. of the sleeve, and a shank having a ballshaped head adapted to turn in the socket, the sleeve being provided with a transverse orifice between the threaded bore and the socket, loosely receiving a portion of the conductor, and a double electrode whose members are engaged with the shanks ofthe holders, and are formed to "bear on external surfaces of DE Fort-Esra CATLINVL 

